An agent communication protocol specifies the “rules of encounter” governing a dialogue between agents in a multiagent system. In non-cooperative interactions (such as negoti...
Ulrich Endriss, Nicolas Maudet, Fariba Sadri, Fran...
A variety of business interactions in open environments can be captured in terms of creation and manipulation of social commitments among the agents. Such interactions include B2B ...
When people engage in conversation, they tailor their utterances to their conversational partners, whether these partners are other humans or computational systems. This tailoring...
Marilyn A. Walker, Steve Whittaker, Amanda Stent, ...
The efficacy of expert systems often depends on the accuracy and completeness of the problem specification negotiated with the user. Therefore, efficient user interfaces are needed...
Argumentation-based negotiation (ABN) is an effective means of resolving conflicts in a multi-agent society. However, it consumes both time and computational resources for agents ...